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Eric A Mann's personal blog at eamann.com covers security, programming and career. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 86 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 69 in 2014

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Why HN links it

Linked in an HN thread on OS X dev environments. The one comment discusses running Vagrant on Windows and Mac, not the linked post, so HN's view of the writing is unclear.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Eric A Mann builds secure systems, writes books, ships products, and tells stories. From the Pacific Northwest to the frontier of what's next.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Windows is, admittedly, a second class citizen for Vagrant. That said, with one install and one config file change, vagrant is as usable on Windows as it is on the Mac. I keep a number of exploratory Vagrant instances on a USB key (just the files, the boxes default to your "home" directory on the machine), and work on them regularly on both a Mac and Windows. A quick google search for 'vagrant windows' will lead you…

    Comment linking /tech/vagrant-windows/

    on “Ask HN: Best practices for OS X dev environments”
  2. Submitted Linux-flavored Windows as a story · 41 points

    HN discussion
  3. There's also further insight in the comments: http://eamann.com/tech/is-your-tv-watching-you/#comment-2529

    Comment linking /tech/is-your-tv-watching-you/

    on “Is Your TV Watching You?”
  4. Submitted WordPress Caching with Nginx and Redis as a story · 37 points

    HN discussion
  5. For anyone interested in results, they'll be anonymized and published in aggregated form on https://eamann.com by the end of December.

    Comment linking /

    on “2014 Developer/Engineer Salary Survey”
  6. Submitted The Case for Singletons as a story · 28 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Is Your TV Watching You? as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted When Bigotry became OK as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted 2014 Developer/Engineer Salary Survey Results as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Debit Card (Lack Of) Security as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted How the GPL Limits Freedom as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Understanding Parallel Processing as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted How I Started in Web Development as a story · 4 points

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  14. Submitted Edward Snowden: Heroism in the Face of Tyranny as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted WordPress Permalink Performance as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted Today's Youth and Tomorrow's Technology as a story · 2 points

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  17. Submitted Test-Driven Development: Proof of Life as a story · 2 points

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  18. Submitted Languages, Frameworks, and Developer Valuation as a story · 2 points

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  19. Submitted Is Daily Blogging Worth it? as a story · 2 points

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  20. Submitted Why the Debate on Net Neutrality Dooms us All as a story · 2 points

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  21. Submitted SHA and Length Extension as a story · 2 points

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  22. Submitted Why I use the MIT License as a story · 2 points

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  23. Submitted Reconciling Faith and Science as a story · 2 points

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  24. Submitted Does Your Private Site Leak Data? as a story · 2 points

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  25. Submitted WordPress Core Proposal: Offline Editor as a story · 2 points

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  26. Submitted Server-side Analytics with Google as a story · 2 points

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  27. Submitted Hi jQuery, Meet Vagrant as a story · 2 points

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  28. Submitted WordPress is One Of the Best Decisions You Can Make as a story · 2 points

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  29. Submitted JavaScript Astrophysics as a story · 2 points

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  30. Submitted Don't Dequeue WordPress' jQuery as a story · 2 points

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